Martin Conrad

MARTIN CONRAD.

Mr. Conrad was born in North Carolina, and came with his parents when a youth to Eagle Creek, settling near the Hamilton County line, near where Benton’s Mill was built. Mr. C. learned the shoemaker’s trade and worked at it many years, most of the time at Indianapolis, where he made his start in the world from a poor boy to rise to one of the solid men of the county. He early in life joined the M. E. Church, and ever since has been a faithful member, making no great show or parade in life, but rather pursuing the even, quiet tenor of life, that speaks volumes for him. He has been in the grocery business in Zionsville the past ten or fifteen years, where he enjoys the confidence and patronage of the people he has lived so long amongst. But few men were better than Mr. Conrad. You always know where to find him on the right side for morality and humanity. In politics he is a stanch Republican and a lover of his country. Long may he live to enjoy the hard earnings of his early life.
 

Transcribed by: Julie S. Townsend - June 8, 2007
Source: "Early Life and Times in Boone County, Indiana," Harden & Spahr, Lebanon, Ind., May, 1887, pp 257-258.